Gryllida, On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM Gryllida <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gregory > > > I haven’t settled on a subject for my dissertation yet. One I am > > considering is the nature of consciousness. The idea is that > > consciousness could be an emergent property in complex systems. As we > > have observed with LLMs many of the things it doesn are unexpected and > > not specifically programmed. Or possibly to study the larger impact of > > AI on software development. That last one is more to the point but a > > bit more pedestrian than the first. > > Wow. This is still so broad. I think this depends a lot on the input > data and the prompt. > It is a bit, as I said, I am not sure of what the subject will be quite yet. At this point, the ability of AI to do development is "acceptable" and is, basically, at the point of a junior programmer. The code it creates can be a bit sloppy, depending on how much code it has been trained on in a given language. > I think actually if you wanted to implement something, then > you could do way better job than Copilot does. There are many > non-privacy invasive, not energy consuming things that an AI > system could do with a desktop. > > > Stage 2, bad but recoverable with the right treatment. > > All the best with this. Sounded like time to step back and > reduce the workload. I hope the government that is so notorious for > expensive medical care can at least somewhat support you in such > a situation. > To me, it's a wake-up call. This is something I've been meaning to do for a very long time. Getting sick has only pushed me to go for it now because I may not have time later on. I love learning, so to me, it's a waste > A 2-3 day workshop would be a lot of fun. > > This could be setup as in collaboration with FSF, they probably > can disseminate link to an online workshop and programme to > their user lists. Someone would need to come up with a system to > compile a programme with a list of talks or workshop session > themes for that. > This might be worth exploring. Regards, > Gryllida > Yours, GC -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c
